Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 Last update: 5:28 p.m.
POLL QUESTION
Doctors, safety experts blast bill to overturn Maine seat belt law
16 mins agoAUGUSTA | A bill that would lift the requirement that adults wear seat belts in Maine encountered head-on resistance Friday from advocates who argued …
VIDEO
Watch rookie musher’s first time taking sled dogs on run
2 hours agoFORT KENT | The 2015 Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races is happening in northern Maine this weekend. Mushers from around the United States …
1 hour ago
Price surge pushes Maine lobster catch value to all-time high
Maine’s lobster catch brought in an estimated $456.9 million to fishermen in 2014, an all-time high that was driven by the largest one-year increase in …
7-month sentence for child sex assaults spurs midcoast movement
APPLETON | A seven-month jail sentence imposed this week for a man convicted of …
REGION:
Ice cream shop wins spot on Nubble peninsula in York
41 mins agoCome Memorial Day and warmer weather, residents and tourists alike will be …
Shaw’s fights Teamsters’ effort to unionize Maine pharmacists
1 hour agoPORTLAND | Shaw’s Supermarkets is fighting an effort by the Teamsters union to organize …
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Opinion
EDITORIALS
Maine has made itself a vehicle registration haven
Police and municipal officials in Connecticut are miffed that residents who owe property taxes are registering their cars in Maine to escape their debts. In …
Sports
Bangor eager to battle Lewiston in hockey semifinal showdown
The Bangor High School Rams and Lewiston Blue Devils met twice during the regular season, and the Rams turned in 30 minutes of good hockey …
Health
CATCHING HEALTH (blog)
A Hard-Learned Lesson about Shingles
It was the beginning of a Labor Day weekend when Al felt a strange sensation on his right buttock, just underneath his back pocket where …
Business
AG Mills orders wind power opposition group to replace leaders or disband
PORTLAND | The statewide wind power opposition group Friends of Maine Mountains will have to shut down if it can’t restructure its five-member board …
Living
Tips for surviving the vacation throngs
It may feel like spring is a long way off, but spring break will be here before you know it. Those are the weeks each …
Outdoors
VIDEO
Watch rookie musher’s first time taking sled dogs on run
FORT KENT | The 2015 Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races is happening in northern Maine this weekend. Mushers from around the United States …
Food
MAINE COURSE (blog)
Find a Piece of Maine at b.good in Boston
Slipping and sliding, my kids and I walked in the bitter cold last Thursday from our Boston hotel to b.good, a burger joint with a …
Events
CULTURE SHOCK (blog)
Lady Antebellum to return to Bangor Waterfront, with guest Hunter Hayes
Lady Antebellum, multi-platinum country trio, will play its third concert at the Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion this summer, when they return to Bangor on Thursday, June …
- CULTURE SHOCK (blog): 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Feb. 27-March 1: Goodbye, February, you miserable so-n-so
- BACKSTAGE (blog): Penobscot Theatre Company presents “End Days”: a Maine Premiere
- GEORGE'S OUTDOOR NEWS (blog): Join us March 6,7 for Bob Duschesne’s Birding Adventure with Maine Huts and Trails
Crime & Courts
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